Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce retains bulk of executives

By
MALUM NALU

The Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce & Industry
(POMCCI) last night chose to maintain most of its executive for another
12-month term at its annual general meeting at the Grand Papua Hotel in Port
Moresby.

The only change was Lynn Walsh, from Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, who takes over from Paul Barber as treasurer.

From
left are Barber, Mangos, Seddon, Tipping, Fiocco, Walsh, Pollock, and POMCCI
general manager David Conn after the annual general meeting at Grand Papua
Hotel last night.-Picture by MALUM NALU

Seddon said 2012 was the first time that the annual
general meeting had been deferred, the first time the POMCCI has had to do so,
however, not to be outdone, Pacific
Advantage magazine had described it as the “most-vibrant” chamber in the
Pacific with 338 member companies in National Capital District, PNG, Australia,
New Zealand, and People’s Republic of China.

“The main reason (for the deferral) was the
restructuring of our chart of accounts across to Quickbooks,” he said.

“This was meant to give us more independence and
responsiveness as the business had grown expotentially over the last few years.

“Needless to say, we underestimated the impact that
these changes would have on our accounts and this hampered production of the
final accounts and subsequent audit.”

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